But seriously folks… yes, I was watching the game, but I had other irons in the fire too so I wasn’t commenting. I also popped over to Papa Johns for some of that half-priced pizza (but mostly the half-priced cookie pie)

It’s REALLY good, especially when it’s piping hot and the chocolate chips are gooey. I am convinced that Domino’s “mistake” with the cookie pie was not coming up with it first. (grin) It’s basically just toll house cookie batter in a thin 10″ pie tin and then sliced like a pizza.

Papa Johns also has an apple pie thing that varies from store to store, sort of a hot Danish also in a pie tin. The one near my office was fantastic, but that PJ location closed last year and the one near my home makes it just so-so.

I think it says a lot about how much BS that Emory study on baseball attendance was. Phillies have been on a downward swing for years, and attendance is way down, but comparable to other teams with better records

So if they sweep the Nats can they be buyers. That would be 6-7 games back at the break. And they are a 2nd half team.
I think they can be buyers and sellers. Even though I like Tony No-Dad. If you can package him with say someone like Byrd to get a prospect and an almost major league ready guy

Reasonable point. But they did play well this time of yeae and may have held off of making some deals for others that may have been beneficial sooner. Oh and I’m really looking forward to that beer and cheeesteak.

The second half team thing probably doesnt apply to this crew at this point. Howard will need a major resurgence and Brown will have to pick it up. They do get back Ruiz who even though was struggling will be better than Rupp and the other guy. That slide going into the Brewers series really mucked up things for them. This current winning streak probably confuses things more at this point.

I think the issue is how big the selloff will be. The Phillies are not in any position to part with future prospects. The Phillies have some veteran players who could be in demand including Papelbon, Bastardo, Rollins, Byrd, Lee, Hamels and Utley.

I love and respect Chase as a player. But those runs in the the 10th are on him. One man on first you have to get an out there. Maybe no outs you take that chance at the lead runner. But a slow hit chopper with a fast runner on first. You throw out the batter. Would have gone 11 if he just got an out.

Utley certainly figured into those runs, but he was not the entirely cause. Diekman was the one who walked the first batter and gave up the run scoring. And it was Sandberg who chose to let Diekman pitch to the right handed Zimmerman when it’s been pretty obvious all year that Diekman doesn’t do all that well against righties.